24-Nov-2009 --- *** Typo alert! *** Two zeta's were missing in
equation (2) of PS#3 (thanks to Ken Patton for spotting this).
You need them to get the matrix correct!
A corrected version (with the other typo's fixed) is linked below.

18-Oct-2009 --- Some
notes from the 780
Computational Physics course on Monte Carlo methods are
linked under Supplementary Reading.

13-Oct-2009 --- Solving the many-particle Schrodinger equation:
Take a look at the beginning of Walter Kohn's
Nobel Lecture for
what he says about the "exponential wall".

08-Sep-2009 --- The
website from a past version (from 2003)
of Physics 880.05 is still available (ask about the username/password
to look at the old lecture notes). The present
course will be only one quarter and is
not a repeat of the first quarter of the 2003 version.

Error plots for approximations
to a simple integral that serves as a model partition
function. Ordinary perturbation theory is compared to
expanding about saddlepoints (one in this case).

02-Oct-2009

Summary guide to using MATLAB matrix functions.

This is a list of excerpts from texts or review articles handed out
in class (extras are available
from Prof. Furnstahl).
In most cases,
they can't be scanned because of copyright
issues, but there will be some that have links to downloadable
versions (e.g., from the arXiv).

Date Out

Notebook

Comments

On some machines clicking the link will start Mathematica directly.
If not, "right click" to save the file and then read it into
Mathematica separately.

10/15/09

Mathematica notebook that simulates the rolling of dice,
where the outcome is a random integer from 1 to 6. Histograms
are generated for different numbers of "trials" (i.e., throws
of the dice), providing visualization of how the fluctuations
scale with the number of trials.

Recent book very much in the spirit of the RG/EFT approach
to many-body physics with emphasis on low-energy field theories,
path integrals, universality. More a condensed matter than
particle theory outlook. Expensive!

This is a nice, intuitive guide to the meaning and use of Feynman
diagrams.
The second edition is from 1976, but the library may only
have the older edition.
A paperback version is available from
Amazon (and probably elsewere) for under $11.